WEST GERMANY: Bugs on the Rhine

The U.S. Army command in West Germany,
with almost 200,000 troops, is the largest non-German force left in the
country. With East and West talking détente, the Army has little to do
but keep house. Recently, however, it has been engaged in another
activity: spying on civilians.

Although press reports said that such activity started in June, TIME
Correspondent Stanley Cloud has learned that Senate investigators have
obtained evidence strongly suggesting that intelligence officers
launched the spy effort as early as last year. The evidence indicates
infiltration of radical, dissident and pro-McGovern...